Dont Do It, The Nike Corporation There is a running battle with activists, especially on the internet, to keep corporations and governments focused on human rights and the environment. Recent activity hascentered around International Monetary Fund and World Bank. A victory for these such groups came recently when StarbucksCorporation agreed to a deal that could triple wages forthousands of coffee farmers. One battle that has been goingon steadily for a long time with few signs of relief isagainst the Nike Corporation.Activists charge Nike with having unsafe workingconditions, treating its employees improperly, not payingits workers enough wages and forcing people to work overtimeand without breaks. There have been several reported casesof abuse at Nike factories in Vietnam.One report claimed that on International Womens Day of1997 in Vietnam fifty-six women were forced to run aroundthe factory grounds at Pouchen. Twelve of the women faintedand were taken to a hospital by friends. CBS News reportedthat fifteen female workers were hit on the head by theirsupervisor for poor sewing. Two of these women needed to besent to hospitals after the beatings. This report alsocharged that fourty0five workers were forced to kneel on theground for twenty0five minutes with their hands in the air. A Korean supervisor even fled the country after accusationsthat he molested some of his workers surfaced.Workers also told CBS News that the daily quota forproducts made is purposefully set unrealistically high. Theworkers are forced to work over 600 hours of overtime peryear. If the workers do not except the hours he or she willget a warning and after three warning he or she will befired. One activist group found that Nike workers wereworking about twenty-seven days per month plus forty tosixty hours of overtime. There were even moths found whenworkers were forced to work over one hundred hours ofovertime.An activist group called Boycott Nike repo...
